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...ARMS CONTROL. A bipartisan group of 56 Senators and Representatives urged the President to halt tests of missiles equipped with MIRVs, or Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicles. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union have been testing multiple warheads, though the Russians are thought to be considerably behind. The critics argue that if the tests continue, arms-limitation negotiations will fail. The mutual threat of multiple warheads, they insist, will only com mit both sides irrevocably to anti-ballistic missile programs and to another round in the arms race...
...Nixon in the President's battle to win congressional approval of the Administration's Safeguard anti-ballistic-missile system. Democrat Acheson, along with former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Nitze and Albert Wohlstetter, a nuclear-war strategist at the University of Chicago, announced that they were forming a bipartisan group of scientists, professors and former public officials called the Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy...
Last week, by a surprisingly lopsided bipartisan vote of 28-6, the House Judiciary Committee approved a constitutional amendment to scrap the Electoral College. Citizens would vote directly for President, as they do for all other elected officials. If no candidate got at least 40% of the vote, a run-off between the top two aspirants would follow. Such a system would not have changed the outcome last year, but it would have eliminated the twin risks inherent in the present constitutional practice: that a candidate running second in the popular vote would get a majority of electoral votes...
Nixon, of course, was assiduously wooing the opposition that controls Capitol Hill. In a display of bipartisan jocularity, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield assured Nixon that the Democrats would do their utmost to contribute to the Administration's success...
...Last week Richard Nixon made several appointments: >Charles W. Yost, 61, an author and retired career diplomat, became the surprise choice as Ambassador to the United Nations. Yost is a Democrat, but not the sort of prominent party man that Nixon had been seeking to give his Administration a bipartisan touch. Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Sargent Shriver all turned down the assignment, which traditionally has had more prestige-and problems-than power. Shriver had seemed the likeliest prospect, but is understood to have run into resistance from his Kennedy in-laws. However, Nixon intends to keep Shriver as Ambassador...